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Aristophanes' comedy of names : a study of speaking names in Aristophanes /

Aristophanes, the celebrated Greek comic poet, is famous for his plays on contemporary themes, in which he exercises fierce political satire. Ancient political comedy made ample use of comically significant proper names - much as is the case in modern satire. Comic names used by Aristophanes for his...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kanavou, Nikoletta, 1977-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, ©2011.
Colección:Sozomena (Berlin, Germany) ; v. 8.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Terms and categories
  • Names and comedy
  • Names and Aristophanes
  • Some methodological points
  • Acharnians
  • Knights
  • Clouds
  • Wasps
  • Peace
  • Birds
  • Lysistrata
  • Thesmophoriazusae
  • Frogs
  • Ecclesiazusae
  • Wealth
  • Concluding remarks
  • Appendix 1: the fragments of Aristophanes' lost plays
  • Appendix 2: slave-names in the extant comedies
  • Appendix 3: analysis of table.